Schools in Sweden vs America (Part 2)

[@maxysurvivorsucks]

Swedes calls their bosses by their first name too. It's the whole "we're all equal" attitude.

[@klarajovanov2011]

That is so amazing because in Croatia we must call our teachers or professors by their last name because if we say for example Hi Ana Anic they will say that our behaviour is not proper and they will say I am not for you Ana Anna I am for you professor Anic and nothing else, of course, there are some excuses but rarely

[@melvina628]

Children and adults are not peers.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

@@melvina628 No, we are all humans. Age is not a valid criteria for maturity or respect. The criteria I use is to judge people on how they treat and talk about other people, and how they treat complete strangers or people dependant on themselves is more weighted than their jargon between friends.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

The only place where first names are not used to adress people is in the armed forces where last names (and/or service rank when adressing a higher ranked officer or NCO) are used instead.

[@melvina628]

@@SonsOfLorgar Adults and adults are peers.

[@TheOdMan]

Excuse me, can someone explain to me why I've been watching 4-5 videos of this guy just talking about things I'm not that interested in. Damn dude, you are a good teacher, you MAKE me interested in the things you're talking about, it's fun to hear what you have to say. I think you have found the right profession for yourself.

[@rastaskate4546]

Cool video but you live in Europe now. Time to throw "soccer" out of your vocabulary. Football plz sir xD

[@TheGooooZe]

School buses are common in Sweden too, but it's usually only for those who lives far away from the school or has a special need for transportation support, and I think it's only in elementary school (grundskolan). In highschool (gymnasie) the students who lives far away usually gets free public transportation from the government.

[@osterrikevahlman3584]

nej mannen jag har aldrig sett en skolbuss i mitt live !!! mannen

[@emmajensen7774]

Österrike Jag har åkt skolbuss från 1an till 9an så jo de existerar och de flesta i min skola åkte med dem

[@Myssla]

Yeah, I remember taking a school bus when I was younger. I thought it was mainly because I lived in Norrland and we did live far from school but I live in Stockholm now and I see a school bus stop by a stop across the street from where I live if I get up early enough in the mornings. And also, some people get helicopter rides to school; www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article10301564.ab

[@KolhetExtra]

Gooze you get a grey buscard too you can use itin every bus until 7 then u cant use it. Until the morning again

[@mammacatta]

I rode the schoolbus from 7 to 19, because I lived in Norrland. I got a small but proper schoolbus or taxi for the first 6 years, then a big schoolbus from 7th grade til 9th (that school was further away). Then I got a free bussticket for the gymnasium, witch was even more further away. So none of this BS that they don't exist. You just have to live in the countryside!

[@Shiva182Katarina]

We also have something called Yrkeshögskolan, it's a 2 year prepare for work education. It's way more practical and you actually get work after graduaction or sometimes even before you even graduate. A special agency check the job market to see what's in demand and then they make a 2 year course about that. The school is only allowed to hold that course for two years and then they need to evaluate the job market again, to see if more people are needed. Btw, gymnasium is pronounced almost like jymnasium, since it's a soft vowel after the G it have to be pronounced like a J. Same with Gitarr (Gituar), you say Jitarr.

[@SweedRaver]

This might actually be actually even more confusing to native English speakers, because "j" in Swedish is pronounced like "y" in English. You spelled it "jitarr" which would make sense in Swedish pronunciation, but in English pronunciation conventions it would be spelled "yitarr" if we're going by the word's pronunciation in Swedish.

[@eddebrock]

A reason for no substitute teachers is probably that there seems to be a near critical lack of teachers in Sweden.

[@GaiasDotter]

eddebrock Also there isn't really a point to call in a substitute for a single class or two, they wouldn't know what we were supposed to do or from where to start. Instead the lesson is optional and the students get assignments to do on your own. Mostly you could go to your class like normal and do the assignment/-s there and likely some other teacher is available to help as much as they can if needed.

[@melvina628]

That "some other teacher" is the substitute teacher.

[@ugandanknuckles3429]

I do not live in the US or Sweden, why do I keep watching these video's... Edit: Just realised this random comment is my most liked one, so thanks?

[@fuzebullen9778]

Ugandan Knuckles idk

[@Quiltfish]

I live in Sweden, why do I keep watching these?

[@pekkapekka7220]

Quiltfish because its interesting to know how other countries things differ from ur own country???!!!:DDD duh

[@MrNissetuta]

😎

[@victor4458]

doktorkanelbulle YT do you know da way

[@Seyenne93]

As a lot of other swedes have mentioned we actually do have school buses in Sweden. Altough its only common up to about High School. In Primary/Middle school I lived very far from my school, so we had a local taxi company who was hired by the school to pick us up in our neighborhoods and take us to school in minibuses. And they would also show up after school to take us home. But it is true that in High School and College/University most students use the public transportation system. However in most cases since almost all towns in Sweden has a functional bus system, the school tend to pay for bus travel cards and gift them to the students.

[@tetea7257]

So the school pays for your busses? :O

[@alvawesterlund3562]

Det är kul att höra folk prata om sverige

[@art4023]

jo

[@anno_mundi]

And in Sweden we have no home schooling aswell and we get paid (studiebidrag) to go to school.

[@mahnas92]

Anno Mundi there is home schooling in Sweden, only it is far less usual than in the US, and you need to have valid reasons if my memory serves me right.

[@wanamama1357]

@@mahnas92 The law changed in 2010 and basically forbade homeschooling as it is meant to function. Most that homeschooled had to leave Sweden. Only those that could pay fines and take the fight could stay. Homesitters or badly bullied kids or other reasons that a child cannot physically go to a building to learn does not equate to (what I personally think) homeschooling, but it does show how some kids do not fit in a school environment and a more open law should be in place.

[@eriklund294]

home schooling is a thing tho my brother had homeschööl and its not to bad actually also I live in sweden in the north up in Piteå brötjher

[@wanamama1357]

@@eriklund294 Menar du att din bror var hemundervisade i Sverige. Det kanske beror på var ni bor isf? Bra att det gick bra för honom.

[@asalal0398]

@@eriklund294 for me, piteå is to the south. I live in Boden.

[@Saturinus]

Back in my day elevens val meant that you had to choose one subject out of several different options, and it was completely equal to all the other mandatory subjects. Then there's the similar språkval, but which is just about language classes.

[@hodhod1863]

Men Han jobbar i en sportskola

[@TompanTV]

The thing about uni/college in Sweden, the lenght of it depends what you choose to study. Like if you want to become a civil engineer or an architect it's 5 years long. Whilst me im gonna go to a job focused college after "gymnasiet" which is only 1 year long.

[@Roberttang20]

TompanTV "civil ingenjör" is msc in engineering, while byggingenjör is the actual civil engineer

[@lazerapes]

The relationship between students and teachers vary a lot. I have some teachers that are like super friendly. Then i have teachers who act like brick walls, unresponsive and boring. I am going to be starting my third year of "gymnasie" this autumn and i look forward to most of my classes.

[@plutopingvin454]

Okay, first of all... We call teachers by their first name cause of equality, same with our bosses. Secondly, You start school at the age of 6 grade "0" then "1" (age 7), grade "2" (age 8), grade "3" (age 9) and so on up to grade 9 (age 15). After that you go to gymnasium 3 years 16-19 y/o and then Uni 3-5 years. And thirdly, we do have school busses in Sweden. They're quite common. They look like normal busses but often yellow or silver.

[@MrAbbeHD]

IIVGameForceIIV i have never seen a schoolbus in sweden..

[@Indigooo05]

IIVGameForceIIV schoolbusses are really NOT quite common in sweden... what are you talking about?

[@johnpersson5741]

in rural areas of sweden they are atleast, maybe not in the cities

[@GuildWars2Ranma]

Yeah the two schools I went to from 2-9 grade both had school busses. This was in a town/village (don't know which is correc for the size) of about 1700 inhabitants and all kids living in the smaller villlages and farms around our town got to take the school bus to and from school. I remember that there was one time the busses couldn't drive and only the kids who took the bus to school got the day off. Made 10 year old me quite jealous.

[@Indigooo05]

Oh ok, I live in Stockholm so I have never seen a schoolbus haha

[@johannakrantz8795]

I do not go to school anymore but we called our teachers by their first name, if someone said the last name of a teacher, everyone looked at the student as if you were an idiot. but I saw one of my teachers as my extra father because I liked him so much and he cared and wanted everyone to be approved in the subject, I had him in middle and high school. I lived on an island so I went to the harbor and went over a ferry and I still live on the island so now I go over to get to work, Live in sweden.

[@SweedRaver]

Another thing people are missing when it comes to why we use first names is that they tend to be more unique. We even had the issue in the past where the military gave people new names since everybody had a name ending with "-son", such as Andersson, Johansson, Larsson, Karlsson, etc. Just imagine having multiple teachers at the same school called "Herr Karlsson" or "Fröken Andersson" lol! It's like a comedy waiting to happen. Oh and one thing that is perhaps of your interest as an American; most Americans whose last name end with "-son" probably have Swedish-American ancestry. You likely know at least one or two of them yourself! ^_^

[@tetea7257]

And -sen if you have danish ancestry.

[@moakristenssom936]

Yeah, I think I had at least three classmates who’s last names was Karlsson at some point

[@apelsin19]

What about hall passes and multiple choice questions on exams? And just a note about the school buss, If you see a taxi or a buss with the sign of two children holding hands, the same sign that are outside the schools, it ’s a school buss. Often small companies drive the schoolbusses and they use the busses for other traffic as well. So instead of painting the hole buss yellow they can remove the sign. Over and out.

[@nono-gw7qm]

Snow days in America: school is canceled because kids can’t get there Snow day in Sweden: teacher yells at you for being late, but you’re only late because the bus was

[@antioch4019]

+Stefan Thyron There are schoolbuses in some rural areas of Sweden if there is enough children to fill a bus and no normal busses goes through that area fitting school hours. They're not as obvious as the american yellow ones though. Sometimes it'll just be a regular cab bus payed for by the municipality. If there is only one or a few students it'll be a regular cab that acts as school transportation, also paid by municipality. My coworkers three kids goes to school in a cab. This is only "ute på landet" as we say. In cities, generally since public transportation is so good here that's what they use.

[@krank23]

Since you broight up college... One kind of neat thing here in Sweden is that college is... free. People still get student loans to pay for living costs and some books and things, but there are no tuitions or fees. Student debt is still a thing but definitely not as big a problem as in the US, since the loans are all done though a state-financed institute, CSN. And they have very reasonable rates. In general, Sweden's been good at recognizing there's value in having a lot of well-educated people around. Even if strictly speaking that education might not be directly applicable to people's vocation later on.

[@monster_diggare]

You should have said that the public transportation is free for students.

[@ErikaLindberg]

Not true though.

[@plutopingvin454]

Erika Lindberg but it is though.

[@monster_diggare]

Erika Lindberg Antar att du är svensk så skriver på svenska. Vet inte hur det är med Universitet och likande men vet att från 1:an till tredje året på gymnasiet så är det gratis.

[@ErikaLindberg]

Beror väl på vilket län man bor i, men i Stockholm är kollektivtrafiken inte gratis för skolungdomar. När jag bodde i Värmland betalade vi även för skolbussen, vill dock minnas att det är gratis i Södermanlands län. Vart bor du?

[@blabarsris6012]

gabenlife ATM Det är bara gratis om man bor tillräckligt långt bort från skolan

[@martinadepietro6041]

Regarding choosing gymnasiums, it depends a lot on the finally grades you get when your in grade 9 (when you turn 16 and start gymnasiet) . The better grades the more popular high school you can TRY to get in to , because there only a sweating spots you have to make a list with schools if you don’t get your first choice

[@luo-mi]

we have school buses in sweden, just not in the bigger cities. almost every other place has school buses, since not all places in sweden have public bus lines. at least where i live, (värmland) a lot of students live far away from the school and you're lucky if you have a public bus line nearby.

[@TDrudley]

Wow, that was very educational... With the highscool and gymnasium stuff...

[@lizebotha8783]

Hi Stefan, I live in South Africa. Our school buildings are mostly outdoors (like the hallways) because obviously Africa is so hot. No, there aren't just "black" people here, there are many other races, mostly white along with black. We don't have cafeterias, we go eat lunch at home after we finish with school at about 13:15. From Grade 10 to 12, you get to choose your subjects that you learn so you get an idea of what to study in university (college)

[@murdabmurdab]

School buses are definitely a thing in Sweden. Everyone in the city I grew up in used them between the ages of 6-18.

[@astridisac1446]

Really cool videos you got! Way to go!! I'll be moving to Sweden this month too for university studies and your videos are really helpful though. THANKS!

[@zynius]

University studies are completely different though compared to what he's talking about in the video. When you go to university, it's pretty much exactly like in any other country.

[@EvanThomas]

what is that cylindrical thing in the corner over your right shoulder? (left side of screen)

[@matildas3177]

That is an old fashioned walled fireplace.

[@EliasNordstrand_jejja12]

It's called "kakelugn" in Swedish and it is a type of fireplace commonly found in old houses in sweden.

[@nikolinaylipaa381]

About cancelled classes in Sweden. I just quit elementary school in Swede (grundskolan) and I start high school this fall (gymnasium). This vary very much between different schools! In my school the classes got cancelled about 50% of the times teachers were sick or for some other reason could not show up. Most of the lessons that we had subs usually were very unuseful and I would ordinary skip these lessons or not take it seriously. It is also common for the students to show very little respect for the subs. We almost never took them seriously and if a sub wanted us to like them they just put on a movie or so. other schools could either never have subs or always have subs. my school had teachers who worked as a substitute on the school that just filled in whatever class there was a teacher missing.

[@markotasic196]

In Serbia we have different variations of high school. The main (and the best) is high school called gymnasium which is like college- preparatory school (found that name online) and you learn all aspects of science like history, geography, biology, math, languages, IT stuff, psychology etc etc. But then you have high schools only for design, math, languages, chemistry, law, tourism, agriculture and etc.But to finish high school you need to pass three tests. First is essay in Serbian, second is essay in English, and third is essay in subject of your choice, so when you pass those three you graduated. As for the colleges, every one of them have qualifying examination so for example if you want to study medicine you must pass their biology and chemistry exam and if you do you are in, if you don't you've been given a second chance, but if you fail that to, you wait the next year to apply. As for tuition fee, if you had good grades in high school and in qualifying exam you study for free if not you pay for it. Also if you want to study next semester for free you must have certain number of ECTS (here the minimum is 48 and max is 60). Keep up the good work,, love your videos greetings from Serbia! :)

[@klarajovanov2011]

jel se to kod vas zove matura i ako da postoji li poseban kao test iz matematke koji ide po obavezno kao što si napisao za srpski(kod nas hrvatski) i engleski ?

[@markotasic196]

E, pa nzm kako izgleda program ovaj novi i da li je isti, ali engleski i srpski su obavezni, a treci je izborni ti biras da li ces matematiku, geografiju, biologiju, istoriju i tako dalje. A iskreno nzm kako se zove niti da li ima ime :D

[@sugoish9461]

'Gymnasium' in Sweden can be very centered around different subjects too! I'm going to a (college was the right word in English for 'gymnasium', was it not?) where I think I'll focus on Art, though I'm not sure yet. The classes they have on Psychology sounds really interesting... Anyways, just wanted to say that there's so many different things you can study at 'gymnasium' :D! (I'm going to have to pick soon - wish me luck!) But it was very interesting hearing about school in Serbia! I've only ever heard of Sweden and America - thanks for sharing it in the comments here! :D

[@filippajohansson5652]

There are a lot of school buses in Sweden. I go there every single day, but they only pick up those who live type at least four kilometers from school. And our school is not the only one that has it.

[@JonasBergling]

Regarding school buses: Schools in Sweden have to offer some kind of transportation to students living more than 6 km away. There is usually public transport covering the route and time a student has to travel, so most commonly the schools give out season tickets for that. When no public transport is available they will use something like school buses/school taxis, but this is mostly in rural areas. I've lived in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Örebro and have travelled quite a bit, and I don't remember ever having seen a school bus in Sweden except on photo/video.

[@iskarin]

One big difference between the US and Sweden is a consequence of the varying lesson lenghts: swedish classes don't have the breaks at the same time as other classes, so teachers can't patrol the hallways to see who's skipping, since one group of students pretty much always has a break/recess.

[@SleepyNemesiz]

im doing school work about the diffrences between Swedish and American school, ty for helping me with my work :)

[@guldmedadhd8907]

If you live in a smaller community or in the countryside, there's a school bus that picks up the kids and then drop them off after school. Where I'm from we had school buses.

[@Lyxuria]

Älskar dina videos :) det är så intressant att se hur mycket du älskar Sverige, det får mig att uppskatta mitt kära land ännu mer ❤🇸🇪

[@DaDunge]

4:00 I think itmakes a lot of sense for primary school but I wish it was a bit more formal in our counterparts to middle school and high school (högstadiet and gymnasiet). The devaluation of the profession of the teacher is part of why Sweden has such a hard time finding teachers.

[@amandaisberg9198]

If you live far away from your school in Sweden, you get a free bus card that works from five o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock in the night, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, depending on what grade you're in and how far away from school you live.

[@AlexsandraBohlin]

It would be very interesting if you would have a video where you talk to a Swedish teacher about these questions.

[@kseenaa]

I have grown up way out on the swedish country side. And I went by schoolbus from the age of 7 to the age of 15. :-) When I was six years old, we went by special cab, that only drove school-kids. There's rules about this thing with school-buses. And since I lived so far away from school, I got to go by bus. My brothers kids who live even FURTHER out on the countryside go by a special cab every day both to and from school. :-)

[@PrettyCrazyperson]

I grew up in the country here in Sweden and we had a school bus. But that the school started and ended at the same time to suit the buses was not the reality for me or my friends. The bus arrived and went at the same time every day even if your classes ended 3-4 hours earlier or just when the bus arrived so you had to run to catch it. In Sweden we have requirements (I think its kilometers) to be granted free school transport, and every län/kommun have their own kind of school bus :)

[@moakristenssom936]

I think one of the reasons why it’s more common for students to walk to school(even very young children, I started biking when I was 10-ish I think) is because, as far as I know, although I’ve never been to the US so this might be wrong, the streets are much safer here than in America. It’s no big deal for children to walk or take the bike to school by themselves. The biggest safety concerns are that the child will not be careful enough when crossing a road or something.

[@DaeLh]

Up until 9th grade there are school buses. But when you get to High School (gymnasiet), you are responible for getting to school yourself. However, since most Swedish cities/towns are smaller the majority of people just ride their bikes or walk to school.

[@GALENGODIS]

My classes almost never got canceled, except for a lot of snow. And I'm swedish :x probably vary very much from school to school. And i always went with school bus, looked like a normal bus, but with a special sign on the bus that shows it's a school bus.

[@AyumuMichiko]

If you live in a town with little public transportation there will be school buses put in place :) I went mostly with a school bus except for those days where our last class ended maybe 2 hours before the school bus would arrive. Then I would go and take public transportation to get home earlier.

[@fridolfk]

In all 4 schools I went to we had problems with not having substitute teachers.. ;P Or in the places where we actually had substitute teachers, we kept switching.. At Gymnasiet we even had that little "rule" that if the teacher didn't show up after 15 minutes, we were allowed to leave x)

[@heiditakala7998]

When I was starting gymnasium (kind of high school) I moved to stockholm alone from my home in Gävle which is like 2,5 h away. I live in a apetment now alone just to study theatre

[@w0t3rdog]

Transferring schools is much more common in the bigger cities like Stockholm, Göteborg or Uppsala, as there are more options available within reach. In smaller cities/towns, you would only see people change gymnasium for certain educations (e.g. I switched from a general gymnasium, being on a design focus technical programme, to a aviation programme in another city, or due to social issues, like bullying.

[@evelinaek2010]

In my old school in Sweden we had school buses and everyone was finished the same time👍🏼 so I thing it depends from school to school in Sweden ☺️

[@Wile1412]

I see schoolbusses quite often, then again, it is likely that it is the same buss I see every day. The one I see looks just like a normal buss but at the front and side where it's supposed to tell where it's going it just says "Schoolbus" and at the back there is a sort of "Schoolbus" sign.

[@Thomas.0404]

Gillar din kanal. har kollat på alla dina filmer. ta gärna upp olikheterna mellan svensk vapenlag och amerikansk.keep up the good work

[@MikeShep2323]

I ride a taxi to my school. The taxi is called skolskjuts. This is in Västerås.

[@Grewlan]

From what i remember, to make if fair for everyone, because Swedish children are by law required to go to school (called like, School-duty), there is a rule/regulation that stipulates that any distance above a few km (don't know the number exactly) qualifies the student to receive aid to travel to and from the school, in some form. Either by a straight up taxi, a hired "school-buss" or with a simple, limited, buss-pass for public transportation. Sweden is probably not the only country with this law, but I think this is also why the food is free in school; to make it more fair.

[@MartinAsplund]

Earlier, before 1994, I think, everyone had to go to the school that was closest locatedto where they lived, even at the Swedish high school. In 1994, it was also legal to open private schools (friskolor) that were free for all students to choose and cost no money.

[@otto_lang6633]

In my school we never cancel classes if our teacher Is sick. We only cancel classes if it starts snowing really much so everyone can get home in safety before it its too much snow. We only do this if it is near the end of the day.

[@Skylos]

Regarding school buses in Sweden, there actually are some school buses, or at least were when I was younger. However these buses were only really for the really young kids (I think 1st - 4th grade). I also think that those buses were only used in areas where there was poor public transportation and/if the school itself was not easelly accessible through those means. I used to live in a coldesack as a kid so I got to use that school bus. However later we instead were given bus cards paid by the school, and I could use a bus stop close to where I lived for the morning commute.

[@art4023]

Thank you for bringing up your view on using the first name instead of the last name :)

[@drdouggreen]

Many students in the US do not take school buses. Many walk or get dropped off by parents and some take public transportation.

[@flingan7512]

in Sweden we have no school buses in the way America has, but there are different bus companies that run the school buses. But it is more common in rural areas in Sweden. I come from a small municipality in the Western Götaland region

[@yes-qt5nw]

I live in Sweden and in in my school in elevens Val we could vote what we want to do sometimes and sometimes do use choose things we can even do wanted to do that but it was more like fun activities like going swimming or different things and also we have elevens dag where there is a different station to like win points for their class and then they put all the post to gather they look if they’re in what grade one for 1-3 and one from 4-5. My class 5B won the last time and we got new things for our class.

[@noe2576]

Army?

[@snuttepinglan]

I would say the most common way for students to get to school in Sweden (at least in smaller cities and in elementary school) is to eiter walk or take the bike. I did that for my first 9 years. When I started the gymnasium it was too far, so then we could go on the public transport.

[@emmaborgstrom]

Omg, I just realized that you are actually working at my old school. Damn, where were you when I was attending there 5 years ago? I would have loved to practice my English with you. Is Per still working there? He's such a great teacher :)

[@pierreblomgren9221]

In Sweden you could read at aupper secondary level a profession, we in Sweden attend 9 years of elementary school. So after three years you can read a profession then you read half the time in school and the rest out in a company, because the school can not afford the latest equipment available. But as the EU works, companies do not care about apprentices, they only care about fully trained workers. There are hundreds in Eastern Europe that vacuum the entire EU after work. That is why the UK left the EU.

[@davidnelson1728]

Please do not forget (it may not have been your experience if you were totally tied to a Major) that the first 2 years are the absolute basics of a broad based post secondary education but also a chance (obligation) to take the 101/102 versions of a potential degree major. It does not often tie you to the major, but can in stead be applied to the requirements for a Minor emphasis on your education. A Major & a Minor are an important part of a student's strategy for maneuvering through the system. It's basically up to you to figure out how to get to your destination. Counselors can give you help, but if you are not clear on what you want the outcome to be, you're in trouble if you don't have older family member or family friends to advise you. That sort of reminds me of the pivotal moment in the movie "The Graduate" where I think Hal Holbrook said to Dustin Hoffman "Plastics"!

[@thelizardthatkatyaburnt4743]

We have lots of after school activities in sweden too, those can be literally anything. They don't have anything to do with the normal school tho, just wanted to point that out.

[@heartoflinnea2131]

He mentions the different lengths of high school/College and the you have to choose a major before college. This is true, but in a way you choose what you want to do with your life before entering or version of high school. This bit WASN'T mentioned

[@JennyKlindt]

We too have schools that you belong to when you live in a certain area. And if you wanna change schools I think your parent has to fill out some forms, if I'm not mistaken. However when you change schools you usually get the second closest school if you're not having a preference. I had to change school because of bullying and I got a school that wasn't too far from home. I'm interested to know how schools in the US work regarding bullying and if it differs to swedish schools. Is that a subject you could talk about? Thank you for your channel and awesome videos! Heja Norrköping! 😄/ En till Norrköpingsbo 😄

[@Bexsse]

OFC there are school busses in Sweden! LOL!

[@cutiebunbunbow]

You forgot detention Sweden have no detention, only something called kvarsittning, but that is when u have done too many bad stuff in one class and you will sitt outside the classroom

[@basichuman7571]

In our school (Sweden) we have school busses at different times those who go in 1-3 grade take the school buss at one o’clock and the students who go in 4-6 grade goes to the buss at two o’clock (14 : 05 Swedish time) because 4-6 graders go one hour longer in school then 1-3 graders

[@jessieanddavid]

oh one more thing is we rarely have snow days in sweden. I've only ever really ever had one which was last year, but growing up never..you get your butt to school come any kind of weather lol

[@inezztoinezzto2782]

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[@isabellacurtius5068]

Well I'm from Sweden and none of my lessons have ever been canceled except last year when there was lots Of snow (snökaoset)so I think that it really depends on which school you go to/work at ✨

[@pernilleroos1551]

Where I live in southern Sweden kids take schoolbus that basically picks them up at their home until 6th grade...

[@pervestling907]

there are school buses in sweden outside the major towns. since there are no public transport in some places where you live school buses or even taxi's that will pick you up for school. but these are primarly for grade 1-9. if you are going to gymnasiet and cant commute to school you can go to a boarding school but if not, you (parents) need to rent an apartment :) edit: no yellow school buses though, just a regular bus ;)

[@ann-marielofberg1159]

Love to hear when compare the two countries

[@jayamilapersson4030]

There are schoolbuses in Sweden but they are not limited to only students they are a part of the regular public transportation and they have no different atributes that makes them different then other buses. They normaly dont go during school breaks though.

[@anastasiuandrei5596]

I'm moving to Sweden soon , as a high school student ,do i have to speak/understand swedish in class?

[@zynius]

You'll probably get away with speaking english, but don't expect the teacher to speak english back if you're the only person in class that don't understand Swedish, but that's up to the teacher of course, maybe they want to practice english while teaching. Unless of course you're going to an international school in which case english might be spoken 100% of the time.

[@moakristenssom936]

You’ll probably need to at least understand it. You can’t expect the teacher to make and entire different presentation in English or to explain everything in both Swedish and English. Unless you go to an international school where the majority speaks English, understanding Swedish is most likely required

[@badgameplay493]

I would say that most people here in Sweden probably would choose what we want to work with in 9th grade and then you become that in the gymnasium and then you start working that is probably how most people.

[@Zabuzas86swe]

When I went to school, at least during the time I spent in my local Gymnasium. Classes could get canceled if the teacher was 15+ min late. I've found your channel today, great videos btw. I do have two questions, how much of Sweden have you seen? Have you visited the northern region (north of Dalälven)?

[@alterbr33d]

9:00 I don't know if this is during the normal school year, but I went summer school in Ballard near Seattle and the high school students had to take the public metro bus to school. Maybe in Sweden that works since they don't have so many problems, but near Seattle that exposes the students to the tweakers, weirdos, or older people who aren't responsible on the bus maybe even trying to sell them drugs. The students would be responsible for bus transfers and mapping out the route of different busses to the school. On one hand that increases skill if they're able to do it, but on the other hand that can end up with students getting lost on the street or very late to school. I came from the mountains of Colorado for that summer school, and I felt like a child who's lost in a super ghetto Tokyo if such a thing existed.

[@lowkeystudios5026]

I live south up in Sweden and here we only have like 80 students in our whole school and we're from first grade to 6th grade and we have school-taxi's and its basically like normal public transport but they Park outside the school for kids to take specifically home

[@Jaws195]

My schools offered a lot of different academic courses for elevens val, like extra math or extra biology, but two years in a row they actually offered free of charge bowling every other friday, best two school years of my life :D

[@Blenderbenderman]

we had elevens val in school but we choosed a firsthand activity and secondhand activity and we do the activity for about 1 and half hours (if you couldn't fit in your firsthand activity you went to your secondhand activity)

[@zynius]

90's. Norrland; "Elevens Val"? Yeah right! 8.20 - 16.00 five days a week and a 7 Km public transport bus ride to the gymnasium. Maybe 5 cancelled lessons in three years :(

[@klaraetander3622]

Någon som vet om han jobbar på ett gymnasium eller en grundskola för de låter som han jobbar på ett gymnasium eller har jag fel?

[@vermelsilk5833]

When u wish to switch workplaces as a teacher you will be in even better bargaining position for your salary. Certain schools will pour quite a big sum for you if your doing good in current school.

[@Zeelian]

We have school buses, they are just not special buses, they use the same buses as the public transportation, they just have a special/extra route in the morning and afternoon to drop of/pick up students.

[@jejh600]

In my school when a teacher are sick or something we have always a substitune teacher

[@SchelinArt]

Great vids 👍🏼 but I just want to point out: 1) College is free (unless you decide to take student loans - up to 1000$/month, but you can receive a few hundred dollars a month that aren’t loans). WOOP 🙌🏼 WOOP 🙌🏼 2) college is anywhere from 3-6 years. I’m halfway through Teacher’s Ed right now and it’s 5years in total (to teach 1-9 + gymnasium). (Subject combo: Art, English, Music - in that order) 3) school buses do exist in Sweden 🙃 but not everywhere. There are some places where you can’t throw a stick in the air without hitting one, and some where you can go your whole life without even seeing one🤷🏻‍♀️ There, I’m done ✅ Love your vids, btw ^_^

[@SchelinArt]

Every college education has a different time frame :) but I’m pretty sure that’s the case basically everywhere? Then, of course, there’s the slightly different University. But I’m not sure if I can explain that properly 😂😅

[@arthurkal5892]

There are school busses but you have to live a certain distance from the school and ask if you can get a buss card for school wich works only certain times but it is free. Also the busses are the normal red busses just that they only drive from and to the school.

[@0xygen34]

Which grades do you teach in?

[@annenuttall8958]

What is the international math rating? Last I checked the ratings in most Scandinavian schools in science rates considerably higher than the US. we’re struggling with common core introduction. We don’t teach the one.

[@fabiansjoberg4304]

We have school busses in Sweden up to high school then you take the normal buss to schoo

[@MrAbbeHD]

Fabian Sjöberg wtf no we dont?

[@TheZorbakk]

lmao, jo det har vi. Dock tror jag endast att det finns skolbussar i mindre städer/orter. själv bor jag i GBG och har inte sett någon här, men däremot har jag sätt skolbussar lite runt om i landet, när man kör runt på små vägar.

[@Shiva182Katarina]

Förorter i Stockholm har skolbussar också

[@denisethatsme]

sätt

[@fridolfk]

Yeah, in cities that aren't that big where students might live in the country side or just outside of the city, there are usually school buses. We had them at my first school because most people didn't live near. So it depends.

[@lollo-cr9vf]

You forgot that in sweden we choose what programme we want to go to in high school and can be fully licnesed electricans etc when we graduate

[@mikeylejan8849]

I still like calling people sir and mam, I just love giving honorifics, it feels respectful

[@zenvoidd]

We have School buses in Sweden, They are called Skolbussar

[@MegaGuru79]

Most young, well even older ppl that is performing a sports gear in Sweden is practice it in an Association kinda, and for the most part is free beside the material you need for the sport

[@juliaolsson2861]

We do have school bus in sweden but they go 1 time in the morning and 2 - 3 times after school on diffrent times so maybe around 14:00 and 15:00 and 16:00

[@tetea7257]

Is college after high-school? Or are college the same as highschool? Or are the thing after highschool university? I'm clearly very confused!

[@AxnerSaab]

And that they actually don't cancel foreign language classes like French or German. I'm LITERALLY the only student in my French class and I'm allowed to have French and not forced to change to like Spanish

[@stutterstudios4731]

I went to high school in Utah and in the predominantly Mormon areas, there are a decent number of similarities between them and Sweden